Quotes About Art

Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.